The Sound Of A Thousand Screams

[7] Fly Or Die

Chapter 7
{The Emperor And The Prince}
Fly Or Die
[Back to the Past]
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Starscream stared up at The Emperor.
Of course, they're his sibling...No one else would have the same frame structure.

The Emperor leaned back and grabbed something while Starscream stared at the dark figure of SlipStream at the corner.

The Emperor hovered the object they grabbed above Starscream, breaking his gaze from SlipStream, he eyed the object carefully.

A needle.

"Tell me, Brother..."
The Emperor started,
"When you activated your first Sigma Ability, was it an elemental ability?"

"No, I don't have any elemental abilities-"
Starscream was cut off short as he winced in pain, the needle entering through the metal armor just above Starscream's left optic.

"WRONG ANSWER!"
The Emperor yelled at Starscream in fury, though the smile on their faceplates never changing.
At the corner, SlipStream flinched at the sudden loud volume in The Emperor's sudden change of mood.
"Where is Thundercracker and Skywarp?"

Starscream blinked several times to get his left optic to work before finally answering The Emperor.
"Like Pits, I'd tell you..."

The Emperor pushed the needle deeper into the metal, making the needle touch the endoskeleton.
"It's touching your skull now...One more push and it'll crack..."

Now, Starscream was the one to laugh.
"You think I'm afraid of death?"

The Emperor's smile shifted into a small frown.

"I've seen things you haven't seen and you're not even aware that what you have,"
Starscream nodded his helm towards SlipStream.
"Is the most dangerous among all of us...Go ahead, try hurting her. Punch her, She'll punch back. Fight her, She'll attack...Kill her..."
Starscream let out a low chuckle.
"Well, let's see how you'd like to see someone coming back from the dead..."

The Emperor's optic ridges drew together in frustration, they tugged the needle out of Starscream.
Starscream winced as The Emperor
un-cuffed him, Starscream got up and tried to run towards SlipStream until he found himself falling to his side on the rough ground.

Starscream suddenly felt a large wave of pain, his audio sensors started ringing.
Looking down himself, he saw a hole in his chassis.
Starscream looked up at The Emperor, only managing to look up at their chest.
The Emperor had a ray gun which was now smoking from the blast in servo, pointing towards Starscream's chest.

"-Threaten me again..."
Starscream heard The Emperor, trying to keep himself online.

"-hoped you enjoyed the chlorine I injected you with...It's really hard to create those, you know?"

Starscream's vision started to blackout, he could see the mechs leave the room and into another exactly the same with SlipStream and The Emperor.

As the doors shut there were screams and wails of pain coming from the other room while others started laughing psychotically.
Starscream tried crawling towards the door but only managed to worsen the wound.

Starscream's Energon started pooling out,
"damn it"
Starscream muttered, as he slowly went offline.

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